Dispensing display package



Get. 21, 1969 Filed 061;. 25, 1968 M. KEATING, JR

DISPENS ING DISPLAY PACKAGE FIG. 2

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ATTORNEY Oct. 21, 1969 M. KEATING, JR

DISPENSING DISPLAY PACKAGE Filed Oct. 23, 1968 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTM/MT/A/ (Elf/M4, J7(

ATTORNEY United States Patent "ice 3,473,655 DISPENSING DISPLAY PACKAGEMartin Keating, J12, Park Ridge, N.J., assignor to Universal Folding BoxCo., Inc., Hobolren, N.J., a corporation of New York Filed Oct. 23,1968, Ser. No. 770,013 int. Ci. B65d 73/00 Cl. 20672 10 Claims ABSTRACTOF THE DISCLUSURE A dispensing display package in which a merchandisecontainer of the blister type is attached to the front of a paper cardbody, the merchandise being dispensible from said container through awindow in the card body at the rear of the container, embodying adispensing device for opening and closing said window mounted on theback of the card body, so designed that container opening and closing iseffected by an improved push-pull mechanism and operation.

This invention relates to a dispensing display package and moreparticularly to an improved merchandise display package of the blisteror bubble type.

The prime object of my present invention is the provision of adispensing display package of the blister type, designed and constructedto enable the consumer to dispense parts of packaged contents from timeto time while maintaining the integrity of the package. The displaypackage of the present invention is designed as an improvement of thedispensing display package of my Patent No. 3,289,831 patented Dec. 6,1966.

In the improved dispensing display package of the present invention, thedispensing of parts of the packaged contents from the blister containeris accomplished by opening and closing a window in the card body of thepackage at the rear of the blister container by means of a push-pullmechanism, a device having an improved structure and operation. Theimproved package is further characterized by designing all the parts ofthe card body and the dispensing device from a simplified unitary blankof cardboard material.

To the accomplishment of the foregoing object and such other objects asmay hereinafter appear, the present invention relates to the improveddispensing display package as is more particularly defined in theappended claims taken together with the following description and theaccompanying drawings in which:

FIG. 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of the dispensing displaypackage showing the same with the container in a return closedcondition;

FIG. 2 is a rear elevational view thereof, absent the blister container;

FIG. 3 is a longitudal sectional view of the package showing the samewith the container in an open articledispensing condition;

FIG. 4 is a rear elevational view of FIG. 3, again with the absence ofthe blister container.

FIG. 5 is a front elevational view of the dispensing display package;

FIG. 6 is a plan view of a unitary blank from which the card supportbody and the dispensing device of the package are formed; and

FIG. 7 is a view of FIG. 6 showing the card support body and thedispensing device in partially formed or assembled condition.

Referring now more in detail to the drawings, and hav- 3,473,655Patented Oct. 21, 1969 ing reference first to FIGS. 1, 2 and 5 thereof,the dispensing display package comprises a support body generallydesignated as 10, a merchandise container 12 fixedly attached to thefront 11 of said body, said body being formed with a dispensing window14 located near one end within the confines of the rear of saidcontainer 12, and a push-pull dispensing mechanism or device generallydesignated as 16 fixedly mounted on the back 17 of the support body 10.The dispensing device 16 comprises in its essential parts a closuremember 18 normally overlying and closing said window 14 as best shown inFIGS. 1 and 5 of the drawings, said member being hingedly movable in onedirection (downwardly) when pulled to open said window 14 to theposition shown in FIG. 3, to dispense merchandise such as nails,washers, snap fasteners and grommets, etc., (nails 20 being illustratedin the figures of the drawings), the said member 18 being movable in theopposite direction (upwardly) upon being pushed to reclose said windowto the position shown in FIG. 1 of the drawings, combined with apush-pull member 22 hingedly movable on said body 10 between thepositions shown in FIGS. 1 and 3 and attached to said closure member formoving the latter. Completing this construction there is provided apushpull tab 24 attached to said push-pull member 22 for activating thesame.

The dispensing display package shown embodies a construction in whichthe support body it) is a paper card body, the merchandise container .12is a blister or bubble formed from a transparent plastic material, andthe push-pull dispensing device 16 is also a paper card body. As will bemore detailed below in connection with FIGS. 6 and 7 of the drawings,the support body 10 and the push-pull dispensing device 16 comprisepaper card bodies folded up from a unitary blank. The blister 12comprises as is customary in these bubble packages a three-dimensionalcontainer having front, side and end walls as shown and provided with aflange 26, which is adhesively sealed to the front wall of the supportbody 10.

The dispensing mechanism or .device 16 of the package comprises morespecifically the window closure member 18 in the form of a flap hingedat 28 to the lower edge of the window 14, and movable about its hingebetween the window closing position of FIG. 1 and the window opening anddispensing position shown in FIG. 3, combined with the push-pull member22 in the form of a flap hinged to the lower edge 30 of the support body10, which flap is adhesively attached to the closure flap 18 as at 32.

The push-pull member or flap 22 is made to comprise a bottom part 22 atop part 22 and a connecting part 22 the bottom part being the partwhich is hingedly connected to the body 10 at the hinge line 3! the toppart being the part adhesively attached to the closure flap 18, and theconnecting part being part connected to said top and bottom parts byfold lines referred to hereinafter to act as means for hingedlyinter-connecting the said parts. The top part 22 of the push-pull member22 is attached to the closure member or flap 18 with a part 34overhanging the top of the closure flap thereby providing an in-uselocking ledge for the dispensing device. In its original set-up orassembled condition (i.e. prior to any dispensing use) the closure flapis attached to the back of its support body 16 and the push-pull tab 24is attached to its push-pull member 22 by weakened lines (uncut lines)36 and 38, respectively, (see FIGS. 2 and 4) which are adapted to bebroken by an initial pull of the tab 24.

In the use of the construction thus far described, an initial pull ofthe tab 24 disengages the tab at 38, 38 from the lower part 22 of thepush-pull flap and disengages the closure flap 18 at 36, 36 from thebody 10, and a continued pull moves the closure flap 18 and the pushpullflap 22 from the window closing position (FIG. 2) to its windowdispensing position shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, where the closure flap,supported by the push-pull flap serves as a dispensing shelf, as isclearly depicted in FIG. 3. A return push exerted on the tab 24, movesthe flaps 22 and 18 back to window closing position, where theoverhanging ledge 34 engages itself beneath the top edge 40 of thewindow 14 (see particularly FIG. 1) thereby acting as a retaining orlocking means for the dispensing device. In subsequent uses of thedispensing device, a pull on this tab 24 serves to disengage the lockingledge 34 permitting the parts to move to their open and dispensingpositions.

In FIGS. 6 and 7 of the drawings I show a unitary blank from which thesupport body and the dispensing device of the package are formed; and adescription of this unitary blank will also reveal additionalcharacteristic structural features of the fully assembled package.Referring to these figures, the blank B comprises simply the followingparts: the package support body 10 and the dispensing part 22 shaped asshown in FIG. 6. To form the dispensing window 14 and the closure flap18, the body 10 is cut along the lines 42, 44 and 46 and creased alongthe line 48, leaving, however, the parts 36, 36 uncut, and alsopreferably cutting the mid-part 50 of the crease line 48, therebyforming the window and its closure by forming the top, sides and bottomof the window 14 and the fold line of the closure flap 18. To producethe push-pull member 16, the depending part 22 of the blank B is formedwith a crease line 52 at the bottom of the card body 10 and the saiddepending part 22 is formed with the crease line 54 and the crease line56 to define the previously described parts or portions 22*, 22 and 22,the crease lines 52, 54 and 56 defining fold-hinge lines for the parts22 22 and 22. To produce the tab 24, a portion of the push-pulldepending part 22 (the push-pull member in the set-up assembly) and aportion of the supporting body 10 are out along the lines 58, 60 and 62,leaving, however, uncut the parts 38, 38 defining for the finishedassembly the push-pull tab 24 foldable along the mid-part 54 of thecrease line 54. Preferably the mid-section which forms the fold line 56is cut as at 56 The part 22 is provided with an adhesive layer 32 forsubsequent attachment to the closure member 18.

The blank of FIG. 6 is assembled by first being bent to the conditionshown in FIG. 7 of the drawings; and the assembly is completed byfinally adhesively attaching the part 22 to the closure member 18, afterwhich the blister container with its contents is attached to the frontwall 11 of the card body 10, thus completing the assembled package, therear of which is best depicted in FIG. 2.

The use and operation of the dispensing display package will be apparentfrom the above detailed description of its structure and assembly. Thecontainer 12 with its contents is normally in closed and lockedcondition. An initial pull exerted on the push-pull tab 24 detaches thetab from the bottom part 22 at 38, 38 and detaches the closure member 18from the card body at 36, 36; and a continued pull on the tab 24 movesthe push-pull dispensing device from the position shown in FIG. 2 to thedispensing position shown in FIGS. 3 and 4. In this position the windowclosure member 18 supported by the parts of the member or flap 22 formsa shelf for dispensing a desired part of the contents of the package asbest depicted in FIG. 3. After the dispensing operation the tab 24 ispushed upwardly thereby moving all of the parts of the dispensing device(including the closure member) to the position shown in FIG. 1 where theledge part 34 flips under the top edge 40 of the dispensing windowthereby forming an in-use holding or locking means for the dispensingdevice, with the dispensing window returned to a closed position. Thus asimplified push-pull operation package is produced which may be rapidlyand easily opened from time to time to dispense contents thereof and maybe rapidly and easily closed and held closed to restore the package toits closed condition. thereby maintaining the integrity of the package.

It will be apparent that many changes may be made in the structure ofthe package and in the structure of the blank thereof without departingfrom the spirit of the invention defined in the following claims Iclaim:

1. A dispensing display package comprising a support body, a merchandisecontainer fixedly attached to the front of said body, said body beingformed with a dispensing window located at, and within the confines of,the rear of said container, and a push-pull dispensing device fixedlymounted on the back of said support body, said device comprising aclosure member hinged to an edge of said window normally overlying andclosing said window, said closure member being movable about its hingein one direction upon being pulled to open said window to dispensemerchandise in said container and in the opposite direction upon beingpushed to reclose said window, and a push-pull member hingedly connectedto said body, said push-pull member being attached to said closuremember for moving the same.

2. The dispensing display package of claim 1, in which the support body,the closure member and the push-pull member comprise paper-card bodiesfolded up from a unitary blank.

3. The dispensing display package of claim 2, in which the merchandisecontainer is a blister formed from a transparent plastic material.

4. The dispensing display package of claim 1, in which the hinge of theclosure member is at the lower edge of the window, the closure memberbeing movable about its said hinge to an open shelf position, and thehinge of the push-pull member is at the lower edge of said support body.

5. The dispensing display package of claim 1, in which the closuremember is a hinged flap and in which the push-pull member comprises ahinged flap having a bottom part, a top part and a connecting part, thebottom part being the part hingedly connected to said body, the top partbeing the part attached to said closure flap, and the connecting partbeing connected to said top and bottom parts by fold lines to act asmeans for hingedly inter-connecting the said parts.

6. The dispensing display package of claim 5, in which the said top partof the push pull flap is attached to closure flap with an overhang atthe top of the closure flap, thereby providing an in-use locking ledgefor the dispensing device.

7. The dispensing display package of claim 5, in which the saidconnecting part is provided at its bottom fold line with a push-pulltab.

8. The dispensing display package of claim 5, in which the saidconnecting part is provided at its bottom fold line with a push-pull taband in which the closure member is normally attached to the back of thesupport body and the push-pull tab is normally attached to the pushpullmember by weakened lines which are adapted to be broken by an initialpull on the tab.

9. The dispensing display package of claim 1, in which the support bodyand the dispensing device are formed from a single sheet cardboard blankcomprising the following parts: a front body, a window portion of saidbody being cut along its top and sides and being creased along itsbottom to provide the window and the window closure member and apush-pull member extending at an end of said front body comprising afirst portion connected by a crease line to said front body end to forma bottom part of said latter member, a second portion connected by acrease line to said first portion to form a connecting part of saidlatter member and a third portion connected by a crease line to saidsecond portion to form a top part of said latter member, the said creaselines defining fold hinge lines for the parts of said mem- 3,473,655 5 6her, the top part of said push-pull member being adapted ReferencesCited to be adhesively attached to the closure member. I

10. The dispensing display package of claim 1, in which UN TED STATESPATENTS a portion of said push-pull member and a portion of said2568'625 9/1951 Harveyfrom body are cut to provide a push-pull tabconnected 3127010 3/1964 CaPeZZuto- 5 1a ncgzlaggrtold hne to the secondportion of sand push JAMES B MARBERT, Primary Examiner

